My World Quotes

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

Don't let your heart get broken by this world.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.

Its hard for me to listen to any actors whine or moan about anything acting-related because look at the world. We really have nothing to complain about. Just to be working is a blessing.

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune.

Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.

If you want to survive in this world, you need to stop asking why people work together, and just start working together.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to kind of navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports me. The whole world seems to shimmer when I find the words. My mind quiets.

You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.

People have opinions about everything and especially when you get into that world of animal rights or tree rights or whatever rights, they all have an opinion.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity," Marcus said. "Charity toward whom?" "Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn't make a world better than this.

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.

I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

The world lies right beyond the handlebars of any bicycle.

For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

I started drawing at a very young age. Writing a story wasn't satisfying, but to actually draw our own world - it's like controlling your own dreams.

I don't see the world in sexual divisions.

Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight!

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

The sense the great democracies of the world - Europe, the United States, Japan, others - are going to set the agenda for the world. [Russians] want to bring that down.

We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.